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2016 Breakthrough Senior Fellows Announced
Five Leading Scholars Join Breakthrough

| by Breakthrough Staff
The Year of the Good Anthropocene
Top Breakthroughs of 2015
COP21 and the Shift Toward Climate Pragmatism

by Ted Nordhaus
The Dramatic Shift in Our Thinking
Quietly, We’ve Moved to Relying on Technological Innovation, Not Efficiency, to Save the Planet

by Alex Trembath for Zócalo
A New Day for Ecomodernism
Big Changes at the Breakthrough Institute

| by Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus, and Peter Teague

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